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Recollection Quotes

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Plato, Benjamin Jowett (2009). “Five Great Dialogues of Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.70, Coyote Canyon Press

Music revives the recollections it would appease.

"Corinne" by Madame de Stael, Book IX, Chapter II, 1807.

I have always been honest about my recollection of events.

Blunkett's resignation statement, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2004.

One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.

William Baziotes (1978). “William Baziotes: A Retrospective Exhibition : an Exhibition”

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

"Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in "Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956" by Jack Kerouac, 1995.

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.